Boy stabs sister to death; bereaved dad is Brig. Gen. fingered in Techiman & Ejura shooting deaths
The General Officer Commanding of the Central Command, Brigadier General Joseph Aphour who was fingered in the 2020 election civilian shooting in Techiman and a similar shooting incident of civilians in Ejura has lost his daughter Karen Aphour after she was stabbed by her own brother, Andy Aphour.
Andy Aphour who is 26 years old has been charged with murder of Karen Aphour aged 30, US authorities revealed.
The two out of four Aphour kids were arguing over “routine household chores” when Andy Aphour stabbed his sister several times at their home in the 100 block of Callan Avenue where Mrs Aphour and the kids live while their father serves as a military General.
Brig. General Aphour’s men during the 2020 election shot and killed 18-year-old apprentice Abdallah Ayarick and 41-years-old father of four, Mohammed Kajuden at a polling station in Techiman. Several others were injured.
On June 28, 2021, two people were shot and killed by the security personnel in Ejura also under the command of General Aphour and four others were injured during a demonstration which that military claimed protestors shot at them.
Brig. General Aphour later told a committee probing the Ejura violence that the military officers “only shot at the protesters to maim and not to kill anyone”.
Appearing before the committee set up to probe the disturbances at Ejura on Wednesday, July 7, 2021, Brigadier General Joseph Aphour explained that his men resorted to shooting to maim after some of the protesters shot at them. No evidence was adduced to show any protestor had a firearm and had even shot at the military.
“When we got to the general area of the cemetery, and they [protesters] started issuing warning threats to the police and military team, we started giving verbal warnings, which we do in the military, but they didn’t listen.
“So, we fired warning shots, and we realised that some shots were also fired from the crowd. At that stage, it was becoming too bad for civilians to be firing at the security personnel,” the General Officer Commanding of the Central Command said.
Brigadier General Joseph Aphour continued:
“I think the commander, at that stage, then had to use minimum force by ordering his personnel to begin firing at those who were firing from the crowd to maim them… After our fire, we didn’t have instant deaths. They were evacuated to the hospital, where we later heard two died. But, at the instant of our fire, the crowd withdrew and everything came under our control.”
The Brig. General is now mourning the death of a daughter and the possible loss of a son if he’s found guilty.
Authorities in the US say Andy Aphour could be jailed 25 years to life when found guilty of Second Degree murder as prosecutors in Evanston Illinois say they will charge him with.
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